King Of Kings

A wounded healer is one who has experienced the brokenness of life, but as he/she is healing their own wounds, are reaching out to others and helping them heal their wounds. Healing comes from one broken person to another broken person. As people who are sheep we are being healed by Christ and as He heals our wounds, we reach out and heal the wounds of others.

This King of Kings wants us to not only give spontaneously to others, he wants us to worship him.

The Psalmist says: O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!

The psalmist is asking us to worship, to respect this King of Kings in our lives.

In our worship of this King, we pray to him, we ask, we thank, we honor him with our prayers, our songs, our very lives. And each time we come to worship, to praise, to communicate with him, He reminds us over and over again that He cares and loves each of us. He wants what is good for us, he knows our needs and he fills them. This King has a great knowledge of the needs of his subjects.

This good shepherd has great knowledge of the needs of this sheep. Because he knows, because he cares, we can and should put our lives into the care of this King of Kings.

"An aged monk said, ’I need oil’, so he planted an olive tree. then he said, ’Lord, my tree needs rain that it may drink and grow, so send gentle rain that it may grow.’

And the rain came. then he prayed,’My tree needs sun.’ And the sun shone upon it.

Later the monk prayed, ’Now send frost, Lord, to strengthen and brace the fibers of my tree.’ So the tree sparkled with frost. But it died.

The monk told another of his experience with the tree and the other monk said, ’I too, have planted an olive tree and it thrives well. I never asked for rain, or sunshine, or frost. I just prayed, ’Lord send with it needs.’"

The King of Kings will take care of us. he know our need and in his majesty, in his mysterious ways he will fill our needs. He fills our needs because he know his subjects very well.

He knows each of us by name as the following story tells us:

There was an ignorant shepherd boy in a village in India who daily drove his sheep to pasture. Once he was asked how many sheep did he have. The lad said he didn’t know, for he was unable to count.

How, then, he was asked, would he know at the end of the day if all the sheep were accounted for,

’I know each sheep by name’, he replied, ’and if any are missing I know which one it is and call for it as I search.’

On this Christ the King Sunday we worship the King of Kings with song and praise. We allow him to care for us and as He does that we reach out to those around us with His loving touch.

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. O that today you would hearken to his voice!

Amen

Written by Pastor Tim Zingale November 14, 2005